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Evaluative Semantics : Cognition, Language and Ideology

Name: Evaluative Semantics : Cognition, Language and Ideology
Brand: Routledge
SKU: 9780415647588
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EVALUATIVE SEMANTICS

Contributor(s): Malrieu, Jean-Pierre Author Format: Paperback

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ISBN	9780415647588
Subtitle	EVALUATIVE SEMANTICS
Publisher	Routledge
Publication date	May 2013
Language	English
MRP	£57.99 GBP
Page count	330
Item weight	103 g

Evaluation, from connotations to complex judgements of value, is probably the most neglected dimension of meaning. Calling for a new understanding of truth and value, this book is a comprehensive study of evaluation in natural language, at lexical, syntactic and discursive levels. Jean Pierre Malrieu explores the cognitive foundations of evaluation and uses connectionist networks to model evaluative processes. He takes into account the social dimension of evaluation, showing that ideological contexts account for evaluative variability. A discussion of compositionality and opacity leads to the argument that a semantics of evaluation has some key advantages over truth-conditional semantics and as an example Malrieu applies his evaluative semantics to a complex Shakespeare text. His connectionist model yields a mathematical estimation of the consistency of text with ideology, and is particularly useful in the identification of subtle rhetorical devices such as irony.

Evaluative Semantics : Cognition, Language and Ideology

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Malrieu, Jean-Pierre Author

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